I did think to make an HVIF derived font glyph format but it’s not desperately needed. It’d be redundant to have regardless of SVG fonts being bulkier.
Hey SamuraiCrow, If you are interested in decreasing storage requirements for fonts perhaps you could work on this ticket? #18381 (Support variable fonts) – Haiku
It’d probably decrease our size of fonts we ship in our default image substantially 
(As an example the size of noto emoji is about half if we could support this)
(Also, we don’t support SVG fonts i think?)
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So tempting! 
I think the first step is to be able to import a single SVG glyph into HVIF. Is that part of the Icon-o-Matic project?
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The ticket is unrelated to SVG or HVIF.
Because games has their own interface which wouldn’t follow the OS that it is running on.
Not all styles and weights can be implemented with a transformation of another style. However, my reply was based on your other observation that SVG fonts are unsupported.
Please read the ticket for details, that isn’t what this is.
Having reread this, let me try to summarize: some languages use brush strokes of different thicknesses called “weights” and OpenType defines them using separate parameters within the same font definition to avoid duplication. The issue is that Haiku doesn’t take advantage of these parameters but duplicates the fonts. Is that what this is about?
If so, an example of this in English is the degrees of boldfacedness of a font that’s available as: regular, demi-bold, bold, demi-black, demi-black bold, black and black bold. This means the same font can be reprsented in 7 various thicknesses without having to store each thickness as a separate font.
The thinkness in the fonts is just a name for a specifi float value with that support, you can pick any float value in between if you want.
In any case, if you need clarifitation please ask on the ticket and not here.
Yes we use this word frequently in New Zealand.
in addition to fortnight, at one time the word “sennight” (seven nights, or a week) was in use. You’ll find it is 18thC novels.
Americans do use “fortnight”, as Merriam Webster attests, but perhaps less often than the British.
The written vocabulary of well-educated Americans (take Gore Vidal for example) is closer to British English than some people might expect…
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